WebHelp Fills the Help Format Gap in Microsoft .NET; WebHelp First to Deliver a Cross-Browser Help Format for .NET Applications.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2002 Until now, there was no solution to developing Help on .NET. eHelp(TM) Corp., the worldwide leader in automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. user assistance software, today announced that its WebHelp(R) technology fills the void for developers writing Help systems for .NET applications and services. "Most applications have a Help component, however, Microsoft has not defined a Help standard for .NET applications," said Ron Linyard, VP Research & Development of eHelp Corp. "As the industry leader, it is our job to use our expertise and fill the Help authoring gap and offer a Help format and API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. that developers need to deploy Help content for .NET applications. We are pleased to announce that, WebHelp, our cross-browser Help format successfully complements .NET." WebHelp is a Web-based, cross-browser Help format that provides a powerful, easy way of creating and deploying Help systems for the .NET framework through its WebHelp API. WebHelp supports all the platforms supported by .NET. WebHelp's cross-browser functionality can be easily developed using RoboHelp(R). It also offers users the utmost flexibility in developing Help systems for .NET as well as Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Web-based applications See Web application. because it eliminates the need to output different Help systems to support different platforms and browsers. RoboHelp is the industry standard in Help authoring worldwide and has been used by the majority of Fortune 1000 companies as well as small- to medium-size companies. The family of products include RoboHelp Enterprise, RoboHelp Office, RoboHelp for Microsoft(R) HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. Help, RoboHelp for Word and RoboHelp for WinHelp. The RoboHelp family enable developers and Help authors to develop professional Help systems that dramatically improve end user satisfaction, decrease support costs and provide valuable feedback reports. Pricing and Availability RoboHelp's pricing starts at $499 (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ). For pricing, contact eHelp Corp. at 800/459-2356, fax: 858-847-1416, e-mail: information@ehelp.com, Web site: http://www.ehelp.com. About eHelp Corp. eHelp Corp. (formerly Blue Sky Software) is the worldwide leader in automated user assistance software for applications, intranets and the Web. eHelp's software products dramatically improve the usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. of Web sites, intranets, and Web-based and Windows applications A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. as well as decrease support costs and increase customer satisfaction levels. Founded in 1991 and with headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , eHelp provides the foundation to more than 250 million online Help and user assistance systems currently in use around the world and has received more than 60 industry awards. For more information, visit www.ehelp.com. eHelp, RoboHelp and WebHelp are trademarks or registered trademarks of eHelp Corp. All rights reserved. All other trademarks used are the property of their respective owners. |
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